Published today at 12:14 pm (Paris), updated at 12:18 pm
'Macron once again finds himself alone on stage, sharing it with no one'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/12/07/macron-once-again-finds-himself-alone-on-stage-sharing-it-with-no-one_6735504_7.html
On Saturday, December 7, and Sunday, December 8, Emmanuel Macron is due to attend Notre-Dame de Paris's grand reopening, to which he has invited some 40 heads of state and government, including US President-elect Donald Trump.
- Firstly, Pope Francis, who decided that his place was not at the side of the French president in the Paris cathedral, but in Corsica, where he will close a symposium on "Popular Religiosity in the Mediterranean;" and
- The prime minister, still not appointed after Michel Barnier was overthrown. The latter will attend as the head of a caretaker government in charge of current affairs.
As at the Olympic Games, Macron once again finds himself alone on stage, sharing it with no one. Back then, he didn't see fit to form a government in the aftermath of the snap elections, when the eyes of the world were focused on France. He took full responsibility: "I heard a lot of comments when we had a caretaker government while the Olympics were on... The world didn't notice, all I got was congratulations," he said at the end of November from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- It's done, the feat is remarkable, and the president has every intention of reaping the rewards.
As always, the president is stretching time. His advisers swore he would name a new prime minister quickly, aware that the interminable delay period between the second round of the summer parliamentary elections and the appointment of a prime minister had then been severely criticized.
- Although he had initially planned to do without consultations, he eventually decided to receive the parties at the Elysée, as he had done this summer, postponing his choice for prime minister until the week of December 9, with his advisers cautiously declining to say when.
- Macron, who ruled out resigning before the end of his second term in office, in 2027, is determined to impose his own timing. And after a three-month retreat, he's not unhappy to be back in the spotlight.
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